Meaning of ready reckoner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts.
   historical
2. A computer program which calculates values; an online calculator.

Examples

“Nor did he trouble⟳ his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule⟳ of interest⟳ being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts[…]”

“Instead of allowing the peasants to manage⟳ their own⟳ affairs, and, if they happen⟳ to believe⟳ that five and four make⟳ eleven, to unlearn the prejudice by their own⟳ experience⟳ in calculation, so that they may gradually understand⟳ processes, and not merely see⟳ results, bureaucracy comes with its “Ready Reckoner” and works all the peasant's sums for him—the surest way of maintaining him in his stupidity, however it may shake⟳ his prejudice.”

“Captain Brazenhead, a sword to the good, listened and learned. To the ready reckoner he was, the accounts were soon cast⟳ up.”

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